The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 1012
De WITT TUFTS.
DeWitt Tufts, an enterprising and successful business man of Yakima, is the
active manager of the West Side Drug Company at No. 602 West Yakima avenue. He
was born near Fargo, North Dakota, in 1888, a son of D. C. and Belle (Campbell)
Tufts, who established their home in Yakima in the rear 1907. They have since
become widely and favorably known here and the father has been engaged in the
fruit business.
After completing his public school education DeWitt Tufts became a student in
the department of pharmacy in the North Dakota Agricultural College at Fargo,
while subsequently he was employed as a drug clerk in that city for four years.
Coming to Yakima, he continued clerking until 1913, when in association with R.
W. Lennon he purchased the interests of W. A. Coffin and established the West
Side Drug Company on the 13th of March. In 1916 Murray Brown purchased an
interest in the business and in January of the following year the Brown Pharmacy
was opened in the Majestic building. Mr. Brown has since been in charge there,
while Mr. Tufts manages the store of the company at No. 602 West Yakima avenue,
where they have a handsome and up-to-date establishment. They carry a complete
stock of goods in their line and have built up an extensive and enviable
patronage which places them among the substantial and representative business
men of the city.
On the 31st of December, 1911, Mr. Tufts was united in marriage to Miss Marvel
Kauffman, of Yakima, by whom he has two children, Joan and Roy. In his political
views he is independent, supporting men and measures rather than party, and
fraternally he is identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He
is also an interested and active member of the Yakima Commercial Club and the
Yakima Valley Business Men's Association and is widely recognized as an alert.
energetic and enterprising young business man who has already gained a most
creditable and well deserved measure of prosperity.
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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.